About Condoleezza
Condoleezza Rice is an American diplomat and political scientist born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1954. She served as the 66th U.S. Secretary of State from 2005 to 2009 and as the 19th National Security Advisor from 2001 to 2005 under President George W. Bush. She was the first female African-American Secretary of State and the first woman to serve as National Security Advisor. Rice has been at Stanford University since 1981 as a professor of political science and served as the university's provost from 1993 to 1999. Since 2020, she has directed Stanford's Hoover Institution.
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- U.S. Secretary of State (2005-2009)
- National Security Advisor (2001-2005)
- Stanford University provost (1993-1999)
- Hoover Institution director (since 2020)
- Political science scholar
- Soviet Union and Russian affairs expertise
- Published author on foreign policy and memoir
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